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Appendix: French club sides. |
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After covering English, Scottish, and National sides in previous appendices, this is the first page (of eight) covering club sides from the rest of the world. As with the other appendices, I've split the listings circa 1981, to give a rough indication of dating. This hopefully gives numbers to collect for both heavyweight and lightweight players.
The French market for Subbuteo seems to have been a strong one, and as you can see, a large number of teams have been represented down the years. The French, like the Italians, actually had their own Subbuteo production, and their own catalogues. I think they also had a different numbering system at one stage in the 1970s. However, all the numbers here come from the UK catalogues, as I don't have full access to anything else.
August 2003 - Bernard Cros, a French Subbuteo fan and football historian has kindly gone through my list of teams and corrected and clarified many points. He had noticed many of the errors in the Subbuteo catalogues and posters of his youth, and has finally managed to correct them here!
Where Bernard thinks that Subbuteo are wrong I've left the kit in the lists, but highlighted it in red. Numbers that are not in bold are those that might have been used "occassionally" or as away kits, but are not regarded as the normal colours of the clubs of the period.
Name |
Pre-1981 |
Post-1981 |
AC Ajaccio or AC Ajaccien | 345 | 004 |
Play in either No 4 kit, or in all white with red trim. 345 is Gazelec Ajaccio | ||
Angers SCO (Angers Sporting Club de l'Ouest) |
021, 140 | 156 |
AS Angoulême | 136, 222 | |
AJ Auxerre, (Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise) |
136 | 533, 606, 670, Hasbro 63155 |
Olympique Avignon | 166, 219 | |
CS Avionnais | 272 (not sure if this was catalogued) | |
Sporting Club Bastia | 143 | 495, 677, 671 |
Play in all royal blue so 495 and 677 are too light. | ||
Besançon Racing Club | 018 | Now play in blue and red. |
Béziers | 344 | |
Belieres was Subbuteo's incorrect spelling of the above side. | ||
Blois | 214 | |
In the 1970s they were AAJB (Association Athlétique de la Jeunesse Blésoise) | ||
Girondins de Bordeaux | 137, 219 | 422, 537, 219, 671, 790 |
Bordeaux ran into financial difficulties in the 1990s and were relegated to Div 2. The new management choose a burgundy kit (in French: Bordeaux) instead of traditional navy blue. The fans hated it, so now they are back in blue once more. The white "V" was also reintroduced ("le scapulaire") | ||
FC Brest-Armorique Stade Brestois 29 |
214 | 041, 441, 303, 183 |
FC Brest-Armorique played in 1st and 2nd divisions in 1970s-80s. Folded with financial troubles to be reborn in the 1990s as Stade Brestois 29 keeping club's all red kit. 303, 183 above were more often used as an away kit, and Bernard is not sure about the black socks of 441. | ||
Stade Malherbe Caen | 338 | 041, 472 |
AS Cannes | 127 | 412, 052, Hasbro 63159 |
LB Châteauroux (La Berrichonne Châteauroux) |
336 | |
AS Corbeil-Essonne | 331 | 393 |
Cuiseaux-Louhans (or visa versa) | 250 | |
They were Cuiseaux-Louhans until the late1980s when for sponsoring reasons the names were swapped and it became Louhans-Cuiseaux. Both are villages in Burgundy. | ||
USL Dunkerque (Union Sportive Littoral Dunkerque) |
248 | 384, (Currently play in ref 464) |
Gazelec Ajaccio | 345 | |
FC Grenoble (pre 1997) Grenoble Foot 38 (post 1997) |
285 Currently play in red shirts and shorts with blue socks. | |
FC Gueugnon | 047 | 365 |
En Avant (Go Ahead) Guingamp | 147 | |
Laval or Stade Lavallois | 049, 249 | 006, 377, 607, 672 |
Laval's colours are always orange and black. So 607 needs to be orange, not yellow. | ||
Le Havre Athletic Club | 339 | 567, 673, 671 |
Known as "Le HAC" they were the first club founded in France by an Englishman in 1872. Uses Oxford's dark blue, and Cambridge's light blue, so ref 33 are a good 1970s version. | ||
Racing Club Lens | 250 | 758, 632 |
FC Libourne | 063 | |
Now merged with Saint-Seurin and play in each town alternatively using the colour of the former clubs (blue when at Libourne, and green at Saint-Seurin) | ||
Lille Olympique SC (le LOSC) | 144, 359 | 041 |
Limoges Foot 87 | 303 | 039, 475 |
Lyon, or Olympique Lyonnais | 139, 347 | 535, 001, 183, 018, 670, 63154 |
Play in all white with some form of red and blue trim. So 018 and 670 are lacking in red trim. | ||
Marseille | 140, 219 | 021, 423, 674, 670, 63157 |
The final version of 140 is wrong. Colours are white and light blue. 21 lacks the blue, 219 was an away kit. | ||
FC Martigues | 348 | 758 |
Their colours should be red and yellow like 250, so 348 is wrong. | ||
FC Metz | 099, 154 (one season) | 534, 504, 483, 214 |
Their colour is maroon.. | ||
AS Monaco | 148 | Hasbro 63158 |
Union Sportive Montluçon | 342 | |
Union Sportive Montmorillon | 156 | |
Montpellier | 021 | 027, 001, 481, 670, 761 |
Were La Paillade Montpellier until the mid 1980s, then sponsored by local authority and became Montpellier Hérault Sports Club. The kit changed at this point to blue and orange like 761, and they are currently playing in all navy with orange trim and socks. | ||
FC Mulhouse now FC Mulhouse Sud-Alsace |
018 | |
AS Nancy-Lorraine | 141 | 021 - needs red trim |
FC Nantes now FC Nantes-Atlantique |
142 | 759, 63153 |
OGC Nice (Olympique Gymnaste Club) |
076 | 057, 076 |
Nîmes Olympique | 138 | 218, 596, 648, 138 |
Union Sportive Noeux-les-Mines | 047 | |
Union Sportive Orleans | 181 | |
Paris FC | 188,306, 323 | |
Paris FC have always played in light blue. 188 and 306 come from a period when they were sponsored by BIC pens, who had just opened a new factory in Paris. | ||
Paris Saint-Germain FC | 145, 251, 358 | 536, 734 |
Racing Club de Paris | 011 | 538 (away), 090, 666 |
Subbuteo never managed this team properly even though it is "the most traditional kit in France". Should be sky blue and white hooped shirts, with black shorts and socks if you want to paint one. 538 was an away kit. | ||
Quimper or Stade Quimpérois | 154 | 496 |
AS Red Star | 146 | |
Reims, Stade de Reims Champagne | 016, 232 | |
Rennes, Stade Rennais | 147 | |
FC Rouen | 337 | 218, 392 |
Called FC Grand Rouen for a while in the 1990s and are now FC Rouen 1899. Play in red and white, and ref 1 would be fine. The odd Ref 337 (blue, red, green shirts) is wrong and another mystery. | ||
AS Saint Etienne | 146, 346 | 045, 393 |
Union Sportive Saint-Die | 343 | |
FC Sedan | 149 | |
FC Sedan were successful in the 1950s-60s, but had financial trouble and merged to become US Sedan-Torcy before folding in the 1970s. Another professional club was formed in the 1980s called Club Sportif Sedan-Ardennes, but their kit is green, red and black. | ||
FC Sète, FC Sète 34 | 277 | |
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard | 047, 316 | 577, 762, 316 |
Stade Francais | 539 | |
A famous team in the 1890s, they were revived in the 1970s. Sadly folded in the 1980s. The blue colour came from Oxford University, and the rugby team is still active. | ||
Racing Club Strasbourg | 002, 314 | 519, 621, 219, 631, 002 |
Union Sportive Tavaux-Damparis | 340 | |
Another team to have folded. Merged with Dole to form Dole-Tavaux RC | ||
Thionville FC | 047 | |
Sporting Club Toulon | 561, 365, 675, 577 | |
Yellow and blue are the city colours, so 561 is probably wrong (and 047 would also be okay) | ||
Toulouse Football Club | 341 | 055, 447, 760 |
Always played in purple/violet (city's nickname is "the city of violets"). So 447 would need violet shorts. 760 rarely used, sometimes as an away kit. | ||
Tours FC | 172 | 90 |
Troyes Aube Football | 252 | |
This side folded, and a new one founded in 1986, currently known as ESTAC (Espérance Sportive Troyes Aube Champagne). They play in all blue with white socks (like Chelsea) | ||
ASOA Valence | 412 | |
Full name (deep breath) Association Sportive d'Origine Arménienne Valence. They play in all red, so should be 41 rather than 412. | ||
Union Sportive Valenciennes-Anzin | 150, 214 | |
This team folded in 1996 and were revived simply as Valenciennes FC. Their colours remain unchanged (and ref 001 would be fine) | ||
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